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I supplied them with ointments and medicines, which were freely given
to such of the poor people of the town as had need of them. These good
ladies were so hearty in the cause, that, through their charity, and
the care of the young women, this hospital was very well maintained and
served. These ladies joined together also in providing for the sick who
could not go to the hospital. I gave them some little regulations such
as I had observed when in France, which they continued to keep up with
tenderness and love.

All these little things, which cost but little, and which owed all
their success to the blessing which God gave them, drew upon us new
persecutions. The Bishop of Geneva was offended with me more than ever,
especially in seeing that these small matters rendered me beloved. He
said that I won over everybody. He openly declared, "he could not bear
me in his diocese," though I had done nothing but good, or rather God
by me. He extended the persecution to those good religious women who
had been my assistants. The prioress in particular had her own share to
bear, though it did not last long. As I was obliged, on account of the
air, to remove, after having been there about two years and a half,
they were then more in peace and quietness. On another side, my sister
was very weary of this house; and as the season for the waters
approached, they took occasion from thence to send her away with the
maid which I brought with me, who had molested me exceedingly in my
late illness. I only kept her whom Providence had sent me by means of
my sister. I have ever thought that God had ordered my sister's journey
only to bring her to me, as one chosen of Him and proper for the state
which it was His pleasure to cause me to bear.

While I was yet indisposed, the Ursulines, with the Bishop of Verceil,
earnestly requested the Father-general of the Barnabites, to seek among
the religious, a man of merit, piety and learning, in whom he might
place confidence, and who might serve him for a prebend and a
counselor. At first he cast his eyes on Father La Combe; yet before he
absolutely engaged him with the said bishop, he wrote to him, to know
whether he had any objection thereto. Father La Combe replied that he
had no other will but that of obeying him, and that he might command
him herein as he should think best in the case. He gave me an account
of this, and that we were going to be entirely separated. I was glad to
find that our L